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1433 that to it belonged the honour of being the pioneer hospital of Australia, perhaps of the southern hemisphere, in introduc- ing modern chemical methods in diseases of the stomach and metabolism generally. In the skiagraphic department a large number of cases had been treated, 263 cases having been submitted to the Roentgen rays.-A new hospital has been established in Sydney called the King Edward Hospital. It is situated at Miller’s Point and is specially for seamen. It has been started very quietly and many doubt the need for it seeing that the Prince Alfred Hospital and other hospitals are being enlarged.-The committee of the Melbourne Hos- pital has appointed delegates to confer with delegates from other hospitals to fix a standard of efficiency for trained nurses and if possible to appoint a conjoint board of examiners and to decide on a recognised system of examina- tion. The committee also decided in future to import all the drugs required direct. The Profession and the Friendly Societies in Neiv South Wales. As has been previously mentioned, friction has existed for some time between the friendly societies in New South Wales and their medical officers, or more strictly the New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association. Matters are rapidly reaching a crisis. At the annual meeting of the Friendly Societies’Association held on March 12th the matter was referred to. The annual report stated :- During the year under review the attention of this association has been directed by an affiliated society to the action of the British Medical Association in practically boycotting the society referred to. The majority of societies for several years past have enjoyed an uninter- rupted career of mutual understanding between the members and the surgeon, but if this new issue, the wage-limit question, is pressed it cannot conduce to the maintenance of the harmony that has hitherto existed. The following notice of motion was referred to a committee to report: " That it is desirable to place before all candidates for State election the question if they favoured the introduction of a measure whereby medical practitioners would be compelled to meet in consulta- tion any duly qualified medical man and regulate fees for attendance and consultations." The committee met and took a quantity of evidence but the State elections being then in full swing it was too late to make any recommendations dealing with the above notice of motion. The President said further :- Unless they could make some compromise with the British Medical Association he could not help saying that he foresaw trouble looming in the distance. The question of the wage-earning limit was a serious matter and could not be regarded too lightly by this association. The action of the doctors in his opinion would be to destroy a cosmopolitan character of our societies. They considered no man’s financial position any barrier to their membership. That a man with his income of thousands was equally entitled to membership in their orders as a man whose earnings amounts to £200 or less, that being the limit fixed by our worthv friends " the doctors" to admit as financial members of a society. The medical fraternity were doing their utmost to keep out an element which was conducive to the well-being of the societv. Very many of the moneyed members, while paying their contributions had not joined for any benefits that they may be entitled to, and the same will apply to the doctors. Very few of such members have enlisted the services of the lodge doctor and he chal- lenged the profession to say otherwise. Their societies were not open to distinction or class. The admission of the rich and the poor was essential to their success, both financially and intellectually. Roughly estimated there were about 70,000 or 80,000 members of various orriers in New South Wales and if a central medical board was formed sufficient funds could be raised annually to pav salaries to doctors and distribute them in all parts of the State. Other difficulties such as meeting in consultation could easily be overcome by legislation, but he should be very loth to interfere in the harmony now existing, but would be forced to do so if this wage-earning limit were peristed in. The matter was discussed by the meeting and it was agreed that the action of the British Medical Association in boy- cotting the Australian Natives’ Association was inimical to the interests of friendly societies and that this resolution should be forwarded to the secretary of the Britih Medical Association. It was also decided that a special meeting should be held this month to consider the question raised by the doctors. The New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association also discussed the subject at its last meeting and carried a motion- That the resolution of August 31st, 1900, declaring the Australian Natives’ Association to be a society inimical to the interests of the medical profession, be adhered to. ! The Australian Natives’ Association is determined to make I the question a public one and, according to its secretary, "will fight it to a finish." He observes that at the inception of the Australian Natives’ Association the British Medical Association demanded that a wage-limit of 200 per annum should be fixed. After some consideration the wage-limit was conceded and still the British Medical Association boycotted the Australian Natives’ Association. At its in- ception the Australian Natives’ Association had only one branch with 32 members ; now it had 35 branches and 2700 members. Out of nearly 1200 medical practitioners regis- tered in the State of New South Wales only 300 are members I of the British Medical Association. Obituary. Dr. George Goode of Camden, New South Wales, died recently. He was born in Ireland in 1843 and took his M.A. and M.D. degrees at Dublin University. He was for some years in the New Zealand Investigation Service and went to- .Camden in 1875. After residing there for 10 years he removed to Orange, but after a few years resumed practice- at Camden. He was a brother of fDr. J. Goode, of Macquarie-street, Sydney, and was well known and popular- with the profession. April 7th. __________________ Medical News. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. --- The following medical and surgical degrees were conferred on May 8th :- Bachelor of Medicine.-H. P. Bradley and B. L. Thurlow, Gonville- and Caius ; and J. M. Brydone, Jesus. Bachelor of Surgery.-J. P. Hedley, King’s; G. R. Wilson, Trinity;. A. S. Bradley, G. L. Crimp, G. P. D. Hawker, J. E. B. Snell. and B. L. Thurlow, Gonville and Caius ; J. M. Brydone, Jesus ; F. E. Shipway, Christ’s ; H. C. Brown, A. F. Elliott, and H. J. Shone, Emmanuel; and C. H. Sedgwick, Sidney Sussex. The Registrary calls the attention of candidates for medical and surgical degrees to the new regulations for the Third. Examination for the degree of M.B. which will come into force next term and points out that all such candidates, with the following exceptions, are now subject to those- regulations :- 1. Students who have already passed one part of the Third Examina- tion. Students who have passed in surgery and midwifery (old III. M.B., Part I.) are required to satisfy the examiners in section (3) only of the new Part II. (physic). Students who have passed in physic (old III. M.B.. Part II.) are required to satisfy the examiners insections (1). and (2) only of the new Part II. (surgery and midwifery). 2. Students who shall have passed both parts of the Second Exa- mination before October next. These students are still permitted to present the same certificates on admission to Part I. of the Third Examination as would have been required from them on admission to Part 1. under the old regulations, and to present the same certificates on admission to any section or sections of Part II. as would have been required from them on admission to Part II. under the old regulations. Students who have been admitted to. but have not passed, either part of the Third Examination must, either before, after, or together with- Part II.. pass the new Part I. (pharmacology and general pathology), but they require no new certificates for admission either to this part or to the section or sections of the new Part II. corresponding to the part of the old Third Examination to which they have already been admitted. A special examination in pharmacology and general patho- logy will be held on June 9th, 1902; the ordinary examination for Part I. will he held in December, 1902, and in June and December of future years. UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM.--At the convocation held on April 26th, the following degrees and diploma were- conferred :- Doctor in Medicine.--Laurence James Blanclford. M.B., B.S. Durh.; Leopold Stanley Davison, M.B., B.S. Durh. ; Richard Henry Dix, M.B., B.S. Durh.; Henry Adamson Fielden, M.D., B.S. Durh. ; John Reginald Fuller. M.B., B.S. Durh. ; Edward Walter Joscelyne, M.B. Durh. ; Eliot Swainston, M.B., B.S. Durh.; and David Henderson Weir, M.B., B.S. Durh. Doctor in Medicine J’or Practitioners of 15 years’ standing.--Edward Harris Armitage, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H.; Charles William Joseeline Bell, M.lt.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; Albert Bothay, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A., D.P.H.; Edward Joseph Day. M.R.C.S., L.S.A.;. Ambrose William Fairles, M.R.C.S. ; Thomas Frederick Gardner, M.R.C.S., M.R.C.P., L.S.A.; Frederick Charles Goodwin. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.. DP.H.; William Gosse, M.R.C.S., L.R C.P.; Robert Rankin Hunter. M.B.. VT.S. Glasg., M R.C.S.; Richard John Morris, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A.; John Latimer Parke, L.K.Q.C.P. Irel., L.F.P.S. Glasg., L.S.H., D.P.H.: James William- son Patrick, L.R.C.P. & S ; George Frederick Pollard, M.R.C.S., L.S A. ; Alfred Tom Rimell, M R.C.S.. L.R.C.P.; and John Rogerson. L.R.C P. & S. Edin., L.F.P.S. Gla,5g. Master in Surgery.--Joseph William Leech, M.D., B.S.. F.R.C.S., and William Hunter Richards, M.B., B.S. Bachelor in Medicine (M.B.).-Erziest Bertram Appleby, William Robert Davidson Dagbsh Mary Evelyn De Rusett, Henry Wallace Furnivall, James Alfred Giles, and James Herries Graham, College of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Ivon Henry Skipwith Hawes, St. George’s Hospital; Kenred Manson, College of Medicine, New- castle-upon-Tyne; Lucy Selina Molony, London School of Medicine for Women ; Robert William Nevin, Henry Reah, Ralph Stuart Renton, Hermann Heinrich Ruffmann. and Alfred Henry Proctor, College of Medicine, NewcastIe-upon-Tyne : Godfrey De Bee Turtle, King’s College; Ralph Thomas Vaux. College of Medicine, New castle upon-Tyne; Marmaduke Cordeux Wetherell, Guy’s Hos- pital ; and Hugh Widdas and Thomas Wilson, College of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bachelor in Surgery (B.S.).--Ernest Bertram Appleby, William. Robert Davidson Daglish. Mary Evelyn De Rusett, Henry Wallace Furnivall, James Alfred Giles, and James Herries Graham, College- of Medicme, Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Ivon Henry Skipworth Hawes, St. George’s Hospital; Kenred Manson, College of Medicine. Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Lucy Selina Molony, London School of Medicine for Women; Robert William Nevin, Alfred Henry Proctor,
